New Music Theatre in Europe : Transformations between 1955-1975 (Paperback)

Introduction ROBERT ADLINGTON PART I: Between the avant-gardes: new music theatre and new conceptions of drama 1. The definition of a new performance code between ‘avant-garde’ and ‘new’ theatre STEFANIA BRUNO 2. Total theatre and music theatre: tracing influences from pre- to post-war avant-gardesJULIA H. SCHRODER 3. Theatre as problem: modern drama and its influence in Ligeti, Pousseur and Berio VINCENZINA C. OTTOMANO PART II: Expansions of technology 4. Audio-visual collisions: moving image technology and the Laterna Magika aesthetic in new music theatre HOLLY ROGERS 5. Composing new media: magnetic tape technology in new music theatre, c. 1950?1970 ANDREAS MUNZMAY PART III: The critique of established power 6. Guerrilla in the Polder: Music-Theatrical Protests in the Low Countries, 1968-1969 HARM LANGENKAMP 7. Rene Leibowitz’s Todos caeran: grand opera as (critique of) new music theatreESTEBAN BUCH PART IV: New venues and environments 8. A survey of new music theatre in Rome, 1961-1973: ‘anni favolosi’? ALESSANDRO MASTROPIETRO 9. Avant-garde music theatre: the Festival d’Avignon between 1967 and 1969 JEAN-FRANCOIS TRUBERT PART V: Reconceiving the performer 10. Reconceptualising the performer in new music theatre: collaborations with actors, mimes and musicians DAVID BEARD 11. Embodied commitments: solo performance and the making of new music theatre FRANCESCA PLACANICA PART VI: Analyzing new music theatre 12. New music theatre and theories of embodied cognition BJORN HEILE 13. Analyzing new music theatre: theme and variations (in a multimedial perspective) ANGELA IDA DE BENEDICTIS